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TRUCK-CROP INSECTS 
VEGETABLE WEEVIL ( Listroderes obliquus Klug) 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (April 22): Vegetable weevil adults are emerging 
at Auburn. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (April lU); Causing serious injury to tomato plants at 
Hazlehurst. Plant board inspectors report that the number of complaints 
has decreased rapidly with the coming of warm weather. 
Louisiana. P. K. Harrison (April 20): Injury is much less -than it has been 
all season. Little damage to mustard and turnip at Baton Rouge. 
California. R. S. Woglum (April): Now appearing generally on cover crops in 
citrus orchards. The pest has not been observed as damaging either the 
fruit or foliage of mature citrus trees. It feeds and breeds on cover 
crops such as mustard and malva. 
STRIPED CUCUMBER' BEETLE ( Diabrotica vittata F. ) 
Virginia. H. G. Walker (April 27 )t Observed feeding on flower clusters on 
collard plants at Norfolk on April 19. 
North Carolina. W. A. Thomas (April 19) 5 The first specimens observed this 
season were feeding in the open blossoms of wild cherry, blackberry, and 
the native plants now in blossom at Chadbourn. 
SPOTTED CUCUMBER BEETLE ( Diabrotica duodecimpunctata P. ) 
Virginia. L. W. Brannon (April 19) • Observed feeding in the field at Norfolk 
today on young snap beans for the first time this season. This is about 
the normal date for appearance of the insect on beans. 
A. M» Woodside (April 7): A few adults of the southea*n corn root 
worm were jarred from peach tree in Albemarle County (Central Piedmont) 
on April 7. 
Louisiana. C. 0. Eddy (April): Adults said to be unusually abundant, especi- 
ally where larger areas of winter cover crops were planted than usual. 
Texas. J. N. Roney (March): Observed from March g to the end of the month on 
turnip, beets, onions, and corn, in Galveston County. 
BANDED CUCUMBER BEETLE ( Diabrotica balteata Lee.) 
Texas. J. N. Roney (March): On turnip, cabbage, beets, and strawberries 
throughout March, in Galveston County. 
California. J. Wilcox and J. C. Elmore (April lU): The beetles were common 
in a young tomato field, feeding on 'the leaves, at San Onofre, San 
Diego County. 
